Aleksandar Vulin says Kaja Kallas’s statements on WWII and Russia show why Serbia must resist Western historical revisionism and remain alert to anti-Serbian sentiment.
Aleksandar Vulin, founder of the Socialist Movement party and former deputy prime minister of Serbia, said that recent remarks by EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas about the Second World War and Russia’s role in it demonstrate why Serbia should not trust the West or allow historical revisionism.
His reaction followed Kallas’s claim that Russia had attacked more than 19 countries over the past century — some of them multiple times — and that none of those states had ever attacked Russia. Vulin dismissed such interpretations as false and argued that statements of this kind effectively serve as justification for continuing the conflict with Russia «to the last Ukrainian.»
He stated that such rhetoric proves that neither Russia nor Serbia should remain silent when the West distorts facts about them or rewrites history. According to Vulin, many current leaders within EU institutions and several UN General Assembly member states, whom he described as descendants of those who once collaborated with Nazi structures, are not ashamed of the crimes of their predecessors but of their military defeat — and now seek to exact «historical revenge» at the expense of Ukrainian lives.
Vulin recently became the head of the Serbian branch of the Russian Historical Society (RIO), established in 2025.
He added that anyone who still questions the need for RIO’s presence in Serbia should listen again to Kallas’s statements. In his view, hostility toward Russia inevitably translates into hostility toward Serbia, and this, he said, should be obvious to the Serbian public.